Thursday, 3 May 2018

Six Thing We Learned About Modern Britain

To have been in ‘democratic’ Britain
for the past eight weeks has been quite an educational experience. We've seen how the NeoCon Establishment works, how
dissent is policed, and how 'gas-lighting' techniques are used to try and
make us think we're going crazy for questioning the 'official
narrative' — a narrative which we know just by employing simple logic,
doesn't make sense.

Here's a list of the most important things we've
learnt- that's if you weren't aware of them already.

1. The presumption of innocence doesn't apply to NeoCon
targets.

Innocent
until proven guilty? Not if you're in the line of fire of the
Endless War Lobby, comrade. Russia was accused of trying to poison
the Skripals before a proper criminal investigation had even begun. The
Syrian government was blamed for a chemical weapons attack, before we
had independently verification that a chemical weapons attack had even taken
place.

The ‘Official Narrative' on both cases has unravelled
spectacularly. No 'smoking gun' evidence of either Russian involvement
in the Skripal case or of the Douma CW attack has been produced. On
the contrary, witnesses testified last week at The Hague that the Douma
attack didn't happen.

But we're expected
not to notice — as the news cycle — conveniently
for the accusers- moves on to other stories.

2. Rupert Murdoch's Times newspaper plays an utterly pernicious role in British public life.

It
was The Times which demanded action from Theresa May against Russia.
It was The Times which has demanded (repeatedly, and again after the
Skripal incident) that Ofcom acted against Russian media in the
UK, such as RT. It was The Times, which accuses Russian media
of peddling 'fake news', which reported Sergei Skripal as dead
on its 12th
March front page.

It was The Times which, on 14th March,
falsely reported that 'almost 40' people had needed treatment
in Salisbury, prompting Dr Stephen Davies, Comsultant in Emergency
Medicine to write to the paper stating 'May I clarify that no
patients have experienced symptoms of nerve agent poisoning
in Salisbury and there have only ever been three patients
with significant poisoning.'

​It was
The Times, which on the day the US/UK and France launched illegal attacks
on Syria in response to the unverified chemical weapons attack
at Douma, carried a front page attack on British academics who dare
to challenge the War Party line on Syria. It was The Times which
smeared other critics of western foreign policy as 'Russian trolls',
including a peace campaigner from Finland who had been battling cancer.

John Wight
has called The Times, the in-house organ of the neocon Henry Jackson
Society. Its days as Britain's respected newspaper of record have
certainly long gone.3.
Britain is only what is called a 'Democracy'.Just think back to that
Parliamentary debate on 14th March. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was
attacked from his own side, for his cautious approach
towards the government's unproven claims about the Skripal case. To
add insult to injury a number of Labour MPs then signed Early Day Motion 1071- which stated 'This House unequivocally accepts the Russian
state's culpability for the poisoning of Yulia and Sergei Skripal'.
Labour's Shadow Defence Secretary Nia Griffith showed her support
for Theresa May by saying 'We very much accept what the Prime
Minister said.'

Corbyn, coming under enormous
Establishment pressure did buckle, saying the Russian authorities ‘needed
to be held to account', even though later he still quite rightly
insisted that 'absolute evidence' was needed.

In bombing Syria
on 14th April, Theresa May not only refused to recall Parliament, she
also ignored public opinion which showed only 20% in favour of air
strikes. In a genuine democracy that would have ruled
out action. But May treated public opinion with utter contempt. That
wonderful passage from ‘The Comments of Moung Ka' by the Edwardian
comic writer Saki springs readily to mind.

'The people of Britain are what is called a Democracy' said
Moung Ka. ‘A Democracy?' questioned Moung Thwa. What is that?'

'A Democracy' broke in Moung Shooglay eagerly, 'is a
community that governs itself according to its own wishes and
interests by electing accredited representatives who enact its laws
and supervise and control their administration. Its aim and object is
government of the community in the interests of the community.'

'Then', said Moung Thwa, turning to his neighbour, 'If the
people of Britain are a Democracy-'

‘I never said they were a Democracy', interrupted Moung Ka
placidly.

‘Surely we both heard you!', exclaimed Moung Thwa.

‘Not correctly, said Moung Ka; ‘I said they are what is called a
Democracy'.'

The striking thing about the Skripal case
and Syria bombings from a journalist's point of view has been the
uniformity of the media coverage.

Right-wing
papers like the Telegraph and liberal ones like The Guardian have
taken exactly the same stance i.e., anti-Russian and anti-Syrian government.
Whether its because of DSMA-Notices (see 6, below), or not, there's been
no proper questioning of the UK government's claims
about Salisbury — and not much on Syria either. Investigative
journalism? What's that?

The mainstream media is actually less diverse
in its opinions now (on the things that really matter) than at the
time of the Iraq war where publications like the New Statesman (now a
'centrist' Blairite organ), spoke out strongly against intervention.
If you want a different perspective on Skripals and Syria you have had
to tune in to Russian media, such as Sputnik and RT, and that
of course is threatened by the NeoCon Thought Police, who want
everyone to be singing from the same pro-war hymn sheet.

5. The role of the security services in the promotion of
'official narratives' is very important.

Every
time a wheel has come off the Skripal narrative, we've been fed
information to bolster it from 'official sources'. After the head
of Porton Down said that the laboratory there was unable
to confirm that the nerve agent allegedly used to poison the Skripals
came from Russia, the line was pushed that 'intelligence-led assessments'
pointed to Russian guilt. Could we see these ‘assessments'? Of course not!
We just have to believe that they're there.

Then as the ‘nerve handle
placed on the door‘ theory began to gain a head of steam we were
told that 'British Intelligence' had 'evidence' that Russia had been testing
the nerve agent on doorhandles prior to 3rd March.
Could we see this 'evidence'? No, of course not.

Alex Thomson of C4 News reported
on 12th March that a 'D-Notice' had issued by the UK authorities
to stop the media from fully identifying Sergei Skripal's MI6 handler
who lived nearby.

Were other DSMA-Noticesissued
too regarding the reporting of Salisbury? If it was so clear that
Russia did it, why would they bother?

6. The British public aren't mugs (or sheep).

Despite all the propaganda,
all the hysterical headlines, all the blatantly biased coverage, the British
haven't bought it. Literally or metaphorically.

Inside the Tent gatekeepers
have relentlessly attacked those brave individuals who have questioned the
official narratives, but its these individuals, smeared as 'crackpots' and 'conspiracy theorists', who the public are turning
to for their analysis.

Compare the number of retweets the former UK
Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray gets when he publishes on the
Skripal case, with those who try and denigrate him. My own Twitter
following has increased by several thousands since early March.
Citizen Halo got a big boost in followers after she was smeared
by The Times.

After the lies told about Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya, people
no longer tamely accept what the NeoCon Establishment tells us. We're
at an 'Emperor's New Clothes' moment in British politics where
more and more people have found the courage to say out loud, 'The
Emperor has no clothes!' The elite have been lying to us and they know
that we know they've been lying. The question is: what are we going to do
about it?